XTractor Premium Application Note on Nature|Methods

Published Literature findings act as a key driver for decision making in drug discovery and biotechnology industry. Majority of the researchers prefer PubMed for published literature since it is a free resource for dissemination of scientific information. Data mining biomedical information from PubMed has been a long-standing problem for many researchers across the globe. On an average more than 50,000 scientific abstracts get published in PubMed every month and for a researcher it is a highly time consuming task to pick the most relevant abstracts everyday and annotate them accurately for research purposes. Though many text mining NLP (Natural Language Processing) engines are used to address this problem, manually annotated data has its own advantages in terms of accuracy and quality of the data that is captured. However, one of the major disadvantages with manual data mining still happens to be the processing time and its cost intensive nature.

So the need arises for a system, which can accurately process this vast repertoire of scientific information with a quick turn around time. We have tried to address both these problems with XTractor. XTractor provides the researchers with the most relevant scientific facts manually annotated (It is proven by our analysis to be 12-35% more accurate than the text mining engines) and delivered with in the shortest turnaround time. Also, XTractor comes with advanced analytical features such as Semantic Search, Concept linking and comprehensive downloadable reports for faster analysis of the biomedical data.

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Even as the globe has lurched into recession, the Facebook economy seems to be booming

Is Facebook a phenomenon — or a fad?

In the two years since Facebook opened its platform to outside developers, more than 300,000 Facebook applications, or "apps," have been created — games, quizzes, digital gifts and more. The successful apps boost users' engagement with Facebook — sometimes called "stickiness" — but do not directly provide revenue.

Piggybacking on Facebook has been profitable for several startups. Zynga, which according to some reports is raking in annual revenues of $100 million with the poker game Texas Hold'em and other games, has grown from 45 employees to more than 250 in the past year, Pincus said. About "70 percent, perhaps 80 percent" of Zynga's growth, he said, could be attributed to Facebook.

Flixster's growth also illustrates Facebook's role as a driver of Web innovation. Founded in January 2006, Flixster.com was attracting about 4 million monthly unique visitors when Facebook opened its development platform. Fearing competition, Flixster built its own Facebook app. That app's traffic quickly surpassed visitors to Flixster.com.

More recently, Flixster built an app for Apple's iPhone — and it's activated via Facebook Connect. "It's the glue," Greenstein said.

The success of Facebook's development platform has inspired a trend: Google, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Yahoo and the Apple iPhone have all opened up to outside developers.

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Collective Intelligence in Action - XTractor Premium

There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob. In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programs and web based technology lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence, locked in the data people leave behind as they surf websites, post blogs, and interact with other users.

XTractor Premium is one such initiative, epitome of Collective Intelligence in Action for bio medical data. Implemens collective intelligence concepts of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches for effective literature mining in todays eonomy...

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Social Networks That Boost Your Business

Here is a wonderful article i came across recently: How to Use These Applications to Make Your Company Recession-Resistant, By Daniel Burrus.

Most people are familiar with the term "Web 2.0," which refers to a second generation of web development and design that focuses on fostering social networking via the web. Innovative companies are beginning to embrace Web 2.0 as a way to enhance communication, information sharing, and collaboration, thereby allowing them to work smarter rather than harder. The business use of Web 2.0 represents a new trend called "Business 2.0." Aside from being the name of a defunct magazine, Business 2.0 is about using the new web-based social networking applications (many of which were originally created for personal use) in a way that fosters teamwork, customer touches, and internal and external collaboration in a low-cost seamless way.

Unfortunately, many businesses feel that Web 2.0 and social networking are for the younger generation and a waste of time when used by employees. However, once you understand the power of these applications and how to use them in your company, you'll quickly find that they can be invaluable tools to boost your bottom line.

Following is an overview of the best Business 2.0 tools.

Personal Tools with Business Applicability

· Facebook

Personal use: Facebook enables you to connect and share with the people in your life. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with others. People can add friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Business 2.0 use: Large organizations can connect all of their employees, or members, with Facebook. Some are finding an added advantage of using an internal, secure version of Facebook. This has helped organizations to dramatically increase their internal networking and collaboration. Ask yourself: Could we use Facebook, or our own internal version, to get people to collaborate at a higher level?

· Twitter

Personal use: Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of short, quick answers using no more than 140 characters per message. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or co-workers. Users can receive updates via the Twitter website or other social networking sights such as Facebook. Young people use Twitter for answering the question: What are you doing?

Business 2.0 use: Business users could change that question to: What problem are you trying to solve? Several companies have used this as a fast way to solve problems. Hotels, airlines, and airports are using Twitter to pitch services, travel updates, and respond to travelers needs. Ask yourself: Could we use Twitter to solve problems faster with our organization or our customers?

· Wikipedia

Personal use: Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can use to find information on virtually any topic. Anyone can edit the content as well.

Business 2.0 use: A large manufacturing company with engineers in locations around the world increased problem solving and collaboration by creating an internal, secure version of Wikipedia for sharing information on parts and service offerings as well as repair and maintenance instructions. Retailers and suppliers could create a version of Wikipedia to foster education and training as well as enhanced information sharing.

Ask yourself: Could we create an internal version of Wikipedia to foster better information and knowledge sharing?

· YouTube

Personal use: YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. YouTube displays a wide variety of user-generated video content as well as movie clips, product demonstrations, and commercials. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos.

Business 2.0 use: Businesses are posting humorous commercial videos to generate interest in their products with great success. The more entertaining it is, the more people watch it. Business partners could create a YouTube like channel for the purpose of educating and training. Ask Yourself: Could we enhance our marketing efforts as well as general communication by using YouTube?

· Digg

Personal use: Digg is a social news web site made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting and accessing links and stories. Voting stories thumbs up or a thumb down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying.

Business 2.0 use: Many organizations have found this to be a good way to track the most interesting advances in technology or the most useful business news. Large organizations can create their own internal version for sharing what employees consider to be the most useful information. Ask yourself: Could we use Digg, or our own internal version, to get people to share their most interesting and valuable web-based information with each other?

· Delicious

Personal use: Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. It uses a non-hierarchical classification system in which users can tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms.

Business 2.0 use: Business users can share their most useful websites with co-workers or business partners. If a customer purchases a product, sellers could share relevant bookmarks that keep the customer coming back for more information and hopefully more products. Ask yourself: Could we use Delicious to share important new web sites faster within our organization or with our customers?

· Visual Communications

Personal use: Visual Communications, unlike traditional video conferencing, uses your desktop, laptop, and soon your smart phone to hold a quick, anytime, anywhere videoconference with one or more other people. Travelers who must be away from home are using their laptops in hotel rooms with broadband access and free software such as Skype and AIM to communicate with family and friends to enhance their personal connection.

Business 2.0 use: Businesses are discovering the power of Visual Communications to enhance the connection with their sales force, business partners, and customers.

Ask yourself: Could we use Visual Communications to enhance communications internally and externally?

Purely Business 2.0 Tools

· Wiki

A Wiki is a collaborative web page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone to create a quick web page that allows visitors to search the Wiki's content and edit the content in real time, as well as view updates since their last visit. Wikis are often used to create collaborative Web sites and to power community websites. On a moderated Wiki, Wiki owners review comments before additions to the main body of the topic. Additional features include calendar sharing, live AV conferencing, RSS feeds, and more.

Ask yourself: Could we use Wikis to enhance internal and external collaboration?

· LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-oriented professional networking website for exchanging information, ideas, and opportunities. There are over 35 million registered users spanning 170 industries actively networking with each other. For example, large insurance companies use LinkedIn to foster networking with their independent sales representatives. HR professionals from all over the world could use LinkedIn to share best practices.

Ask Yourself: Could we use LinkedIn to expand our organizational network for enhanced knowledge sharing?

· Cloud Computing & Software As A Service

In Cloud Computing, some or all of the storage, software, IT processes, and data center facilities you use can exist on your provider's server, which is maintained and cared for by your provider, giving you 24/7 access from any device anywhere. The cost of upgrading hardware and software, maintenance, and associated IT labor costs can be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Currently, the ideal organization would be any size company that's facing big investments in computing and communications infrastructure. For example, Amazon.com can give you an entire e-commerce back end. Software as a Service (SaaS) such as SalesForce.com has a CRM package, SciQuest has a spend management package, and Google, Microsoft and others have a suite of offerings.

Ask yourself: Could we use Cloud Computing & Software as a service to streamline our IT needs?

Gain a New Competitive Advantage

By reframing the use of social networking technology, companies can increase communication, collaboration, problem solving, and competitive advantage with little cost. Remember, many of these tools are free or nearly free, making them accessible to even the smallest of businesses. Therefore, the sooner you embrace Business 2.0 and put it to work for you, the faster you can penetrate new markets and win the lion's share of business.

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Pioneering Biomedical Web Community Poised For Leap To Web 3.0

The Alzheimer Research Forum (http://www.alzforum.org), a dynamic, biomedical Web community that is heavily used by Alzheimer researchers around the world, is preparing to migrate to a new platform that will enable it to more fully exploit social networking ("Web 2.0") and the Semantic Web ("Web 3.0"). Founded 13 years ago when the Web was still in its infancy, the "Alzforum" has more than 5,000 registered members and is familiar to most Alzheimer scientists in the world.

Ever since launching in 1996, the Alzforum Web site has been interactive, posting researchers' comments on published papers and research news. The site has published thousands of peer commentaries and mini-reviews by leading scientists in the field, and has established itself as the "go to" Web site for anyone who wished to be up to date on Alzheimer research. Members can post commentaries on any journal article or news story, and can participate in live discussion forums. Researchers frequently reference Alzforum in scientific papers and conduct weekly "Alzforum" sessions in their labs to discuss current findings. The AlzGene database, designed and curated by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and developed and hosted by Alzforum, is a workhorse of the global genetic community, and has generated a primary research publication in Nature Genetics. Alzforum has built numerous other data resources for the research community.

This spring, Alzforum will re-develop its site using the Scientific Collaboration Framework (SCF), a project based on open-source Drupal technology that is designed for building scientific Web communities. SCF was piloted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to build a Web publication called StemBook (www.stembook.org). Alzforum will develop some new software modules in Drupal and contribute them back to the SCF, where they will be freely available for other research organizations that are building their own Web communities. (SCF software is available at http://www.sciencecollaboration.org).

SCF is well-suited for publishing articles, comments, forums and blogs, and for managing member communities with fine degrees of editorial control. "We want it to be very easy for anyone to participate, but it's also essential for our editors to vet all postings in order to maintain civil and productive discourse," says Alzforum's co-founder and Executive Editor June Kinoshita.

A feature of SCF that Alzforum's editors are excited about is a semantic tagging module that locates scientific terms within an article, such as names of genes, organisms, and biological processes, and proposes them as tags that describe key concepts in the article. The tags enable the user to search other content with matching or related tags, so that an article about a gene can be automatically linked to a description of the gene, to articles about the gene, and even to the profiles of scientists who study that gene.

"The possibilities this opens up for scientists to navigate a knowledge network of articles, databases, and people is amazing," says Kinoshita. "And all of the Web communities that share the SCF platform will be interconnected. Alzforum has always been about building a research community without walls. Using the SCF, we will take this idea to a whole other level."

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Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics

Here is a hand picked item, one of my favorites among the recent blogs that came across. This articles reflects and talks about many things which i have appreciated in the recent times and have blogged in the past web 2.0....

Why should a (bioinformatics) scientist learn web development ?

Up to now bioinformatics research with genomics datasets, has been happening like that: you download the data from a website of a big-iron institution (NCBI, TAIR), set them up locally, BLAST ‘em, MySQL’em, parse them with Perl script, and do all other sorts of un-imaginable things. Even though bioinformaticians might be un-aware of the term, part of the local processing that happens with the data is a mashup. This term translates to the combination of pieces of data from different sources, something akin to what has been happening on the web (see also Web 2.0 or programmable web). In no way this is close to the myriad of Web 2.0 mashups that exist out there, created using APIs offered openly by different servers. In this case different sets of data are brought together by the mashup developer, who also adds value to them through their re-combination (and reciprocally adds value to the providing server, through spreading out and offering a better view of their offered data).

While the big-iron bioinformatics institutions don’t quite live in a parallel universe from Web 2.0 (we have to credit the NCBI server for its GCI interface), there are light years away from the programmable web. That is both because of the technologies their are using (forget about Ruby on Rails and REST), but also because of the small number of institutions like NCBI offering APIs.

So why should a (bioinformatics) scientist learn web development ? Because this situation I am describing above will change. These bioinformatics institutions will adopt Web 2.0 at some point during the next years - I can bet you now that, OK maybe in 5 years, we will have an NCBI running a nice REST API backed by Rails or Django. But it might happen even earlier, when people take things at their own hands. And for that I refer you to Amazon Web Services, where bioinformaticians can build their own NCBI running on Rails and sell it to other Web 2.0-minded scientists, who understand the (added) value of an inter-operable web of data.

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XTractor™ - Creates a user base of over 900 users from 150 premier organizations worldwide.

US FDA, NIH, NCI, MD Anderson, Harvard Medical School, Novartis, Wyeth, AstraZeneca, Vertex, P&G, JNJ many more subscribe to XTractor.

“XTractor™ is an intelligence that works so unconscious even for the users to perceive. It is fascinating as to how quickly XTractor transforms the most complex scientific facts into structured knowledge almost instantaneously by bringing about cross entity relationships across abstracts thereby aiding in quicker decision making through the Drug Discovery process”

Bangalore, India, October 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Indian Life Sciences Informatics Company, Molecular Connections announced today, that its XTractor™ - The first of its kind scientific literature alert service launched in July ‘08 has built a user base of over 900 users form more than 150 premier organizations. XTractor™ has been widely accepted and received well in the scientific fraternity both the academia and the industry across the globe.

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Scientists - Get Networked

Social networking is the latest buzz on the internet. You’ve heard about it, but what does it mean to you as a scientist? Well for one thing, it means that networking has never been easier. Here are six of the best social networking sites for scientists that are designed to help you make and maintain your professional contacts.

1. SciLink is a souped-up networking site that actually knows who a lot of your contacts will be before you even sign up. Uniquely, SciLink mines literature databases to build a network of professional relationships that you can slot into (and of course expand further) when you sign up. You can also find jobs, discussion, news etc on the site.

2. MyNetResearch is a powerful website for finding collaborators for your project. You set up your own account/profile and build a network of contacts as with the other social networks but MyNetResearch is designed to help you find people who work in the areas you are interested in (or interested in expanding into) and arrange collaborations with them.

3. The Nature Network. As you might expect, this is the grand-daddy of science social networks. Not only can you set up a contact network, but you can also browse niche-specific forums and groups, start your own blog, and much more.

4. LinkedIn is a site professional networking site for all professions. Unlike the science-specific networking sites,your LinkIn contact list can contain contacts who are not scientists, which is useful if you actually know people in the real world too and it has a more professional atmosphere than Facebook so people of all ages are more likely to join up.

5. Labmeeting primarily allows you to archive, track and share your literature. From your account you can search for papers of interest and upload the PDFs to your account for later retreival. You can also set up streams to keep you informed of the latest publications in your fields of interest, which you can then add to your archive. However, you can also set up a group area to share papers and talk about your interests, and to schedule events, such as lab meetings.

6. XTractor This free service helps discovering newer scientific relations across abstracts. it provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the keywords of your choice. Maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies. Just play around with their drug, disease, etc entity types and you can actually track a drug or process across various diseases across abstracts :)

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Medicine 2.0

It is pretty sure now, that web 2.0, the new generation of web services, will (and already is playing) play an important role in the future of medicine. These web tools, expert-based community sites, medical blogs and wikis can ease the work of physicians, scientists, medical students or medical librarians.

Let us being to believe that the new generation of web services will change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered.

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XTractor @ Biological Informatics.info - Discovering Newer Scientific Relations Across Abstracts

XTractor - Discovering Newer Scientific Relations Across Abstracts
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Literature alert service, that provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the Keywords of user preference. XTractor maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies and enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biological significant relationships and it also provides the user with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms. Also the user could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs. The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users. Thus XTractor proves to be a platform for getting real-time highly accurate data along with the ability to Share and collaborate. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog.

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Launch of XTractor™ -a powerful scientific literature alert & abstraction system, now with unlimited free access.

Bangalore, India — Indian Life Sciences Informatics Company, Molecular Connections announced today, the release of XTractor™, a first of its kind manually curated literature alert service. XTractor™ can be accessed free of charge by the scientific community world wide.

XTractor™ acts as a literature alert service, which provides scientists with manually annotated scientific facts from literature. It enables researchers to be up-to-date with the latest scientific publications in the STM arena, as and when they are published. Once registered the scientists have the freedom to choose their keywords of choice and also set the frequency at which they wish to receive these alerts.

Mining scientific literature to retrieve accurate hits or extract entity relationship has always been a long-standing problem in research. It is a daunting task to identify the right gene name or the right drug name and extract relations/association with diseases, processes; pathways etc accurately form unstructured text. Text mining engines are fast enough but not accurate. XTractor™ with its efficient workflows combines the speed of a text-mining engine, with the accuracy of manual, expert curation.

XTractor™ is highly accurate and more efficient than many of NLP engines, since it is a hybrid model using technology and manual validation. Since the annotation is highly accurate researchers would also be able to perform complex queries and retrieve the most complex relations available in literature, which is currently not possible with the conventional NLP systems. Other than this XTractor™ acts as a platform for data sharing and categorization. Scientists can share their data with others and even tag data into customized datasets. Above all the data stored in one’s profile is accessible anytime, anywhere.

J Kamesh, Business Development Manager at Molecular Connections mentioned, “XTractor™ is a technology, which can and should be used by all life science researchers who want to stay current and updated in their field of interest. XTractor™ provides scientists with the ability to customize his own data needs. The researchers have the flexibility to change their keywords in tune with their changing research needs. The alerts get updated automatically for the new set of Keywords.”

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About Molecular Connections

Molecular Connections is a pioneering In silico discovery services company. It provides high quality, cost effective curation, literature informatics solutions and annotation services as well as products. Dr.Limsoon Wong is the Chairman of Molecular Connections. Customers of Molecular Connections include leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology, drug discovery, genomics, proteomics, medical technology, equipment companies and academic institutions spanning across the globe.

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Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research II

Previously blogging about Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research discussed about the latest trends in literature abstraction, alert services and analysis tools. This time as a sequel check out one of the finest alert service using the web 2.0 technology. It is absolutely FREE! It is very simple, just visit the site www.xtractor.in and register. Almost immediately you are provided with a user-name and pw to access the alert service.

Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research II

Talking about the development in the field of literature and scientific publication search. Looking beyond NLP some of the advancements and service models based on NLP and other advanced methods. Today to the user's delight there are quite a few companies and organization that provide services that absolutely make a scientist life easy!

These services revolve around customized alert services for selected search terms, specific research area of interest even more so pertaining to a list of custom key-word and search terms that the service providers allow the scientist to choose form. The scientist can simply subscribe to such service, sit back and wait for daily updates. The updates are provided on a day to day basis at his desktop.

A scientist gets abstract summarization, full text summarization so that he need not actually go through the ordeal of reading through pages of scientific literature. Some once else does the job for him and just pick up the right things that he would look for in such papers. It is a very interactive service where on a daily basis the user can keep track of the quality of the service and set it right so that he can make sure that he just gets the right things he ever wants and nothing else other than that.

Over and above the service is provided using cutting edge technology, attractive web interface. Such interface come in all colour with floating dockable modules which is easy to use and some smart tools too. These smart tools enable the user to track, analyze, visualize and develop relationships among blocks of data that is being provided as "lego blocks".

Check out this product, XTRACTOR™ the first of its kind - SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE alert service which also provides manually annotated sentences for the keywords of YOUR preference

• Highly accurate, manually annotated sentences for given keywords.
• Daily scientific literature updates at your desktop along with the extracted facts – manually curated.
• Provision to change keywords with your changing research preferences
• Annotated sentences and abstracts get stored in your profile, as and when they get updated in LITERATURE.
• Classify and create your own datasets of annotated facts
• Enhanced experiences of reading & analyzing literature
• Access your profile/ datasets from anytime, anywhere
• Discover and Create newer relations from scientific facts classified by the XTractor™ Community.
• Tag your favorite abstracts/sentences and share them across other users
• Much more faster and an Absolutely Free Service

Be a part of the XTractor community. XTractor is the first of its kind - Literature alert service, that provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the Keywords of user preference. XTractor maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies and enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biological significant relationships and it also provides the user with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms. Also the user could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs. The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users. Thus XTractor proves to be a platform for getting real-time highly accurate data along with the ability to Share and collaborate.

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Launch of XTractor™ -a powerful scientific literature alert & abstraction system, now with unlimited free access.

Bangalore, India — Indian Life Sciences Informatics Company, Molecular Connections announced today, the release of XTractor™, a first of its kind manually curated literature alert service. XTractor™ can be accessed free of charge by the scientific community world wide.

XTractor™ acts as a literature alert service, which provides scientists with manually annotated scientific facts from literature. It enables researchers to be up-to-date with the latest scientific publications in the STM arena, as and when they are published. Once registered the scientists have the freedom to choose their keywords of choice and also set the frequency at which they wish to receive these alerts.

Mining scientific literature to retrieve accurate hits or extract entity relationship has always been a long-standing problem in research. It is a daunting task to identify the right gene name or the right drug name and extract relations/association with diseases, processes; pathways etc accurately form unstructured text. Text mining engines are fast enough but not accurate. XTractor™ with its efficient workflows combines the speed of a text-mining engine, with the accuracy of manual, expert curation.

XTractor™ is highly accurate and more efficient than many of NLP engines, since it is a hybrid model using technology and manual validation. Since the annotation is highly accurate researchers would also be able to perform complex queries and retrieve the most complex relations available in literature, which is currently not possible with the conventional NLP systems. Other than this XTractor™ acts as a platform for data sharing and categorization. Scientists can share their data with others and even tag data into customized datasets. Above all the data stored in one’s profile is accessible anytime, anywhere.

J Kamesh, Business Development Manager at Molecular Connections mentioned, “XTractor™ is a technology, which can and should be used by all life science researchers who want to stay current and updated in their field of interest. XTractor™ provides scientists with the ability to customize his own data needs. The researchers have the flexibility to change their keywords in tune with their changing research needs. The alerts get updated automatically for the new set of Keywords.”

To know more about the advantages of the XTractor™ and to register for a free trial account please logon to the Molecular Connections’ XTractor portal www.XTractor.in.

About Molecular Connections

Molecular Connections is a pioneering In silico discovery services company. It provides high quality, cost effective curation, literature informatics solutions and annotation services as well as products. Dr.Limsoon Wong is the Chairman of Molecular Connections. Customers of Molecular Connections include leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology, drug discovery, genomics, proteomics, medical technology, equipment companies and academic institutions spanning across the globe.

In addition, Molecular Connections has powerful tool development, database integration and effective data visualization capabilities. Molecular Connections has specific expertise in building knowledge bases for rapidly growing needs in genomics, proteomics, ADME Tox, clinical, drugs, chemistry and patent industries.

Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research

Yes i am talking about the development in the field of literature search and scientific publication search. Looking beyond NLP some of the advancements and service models based on NLP and other advanced methods. Today to the user's delight there are quite a few companies and organization that provide services that absolutely make an scientist life easy!

These services revolve around customized alert services for selected search terms, specific research area of interest even more so pertaining to a list of custom key-word and search terms that the service providers allow the user to choose form. The scientist can simply subscribe to such service, sit back and wait for daily updates. The updates are provided on a day to day basis at his desktop.

He gets abstract summarization, full text summarization so that he need not actually go through the ordeal of reading through pages of scientific literature. Some once else does the job for him and just pick up the right things that he would look for in such papers. It is a very interactive service where on a daily basis the user can keep track of the quality of the service and set it right so that he can make sure that he just gets the right things he ever wants and nothing else other than that.

Over and above the service is provided using cutting edge technology, attractive web interface. Such interface come in all colour with floating dockable modules which is easy to use and some smart tools too. These smart tools enable the user to track, analyze, visualize and develop relationships among blocks of data that is being provided as "lego blocks".

"Knowledge is power" but knowledge is money too big money these days!

As an estimate companies providing such services are looking at a market size of $770 million worldwide which spans across verticals like bio-cheminformatics, knowledge management and content database. While the estimated market size for computational chemistry and knowledge management for life science vertical is approximately $400 million.